Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-09
HORSE GOSSIP.

Oliver K will not be seen upon the track |
this season. He is IN Chicago and has |
been bistered.
Isaac Murphy, the colored Archer, has
been engaged to ride for j. b. Haggin |
next season terms, $1,000.
Aid. Alex. Newburger of New York has |
sold his gelding Willett to John Madden
of Philadelphia for -, 500.
a big three-Harry Wilkes, Rosalind |
Wilkes and Gossip, ir.-and they are all |
owned 10y one man, II. b. Sire.
On saturday, September II, the third
day of the California State fair, Arab will |
trot against Anteo and Adair.
The bay gelding Lot Slotum, by Elec
tiOneer obtained a record of 2:l9 at san |
Francisco, on Saturday, August %. Ohe |
OF the defeated was Adair.
Charlie Hogan was hitched with a run |
ner at Chicago last week for the first time
and Budd Doble drove the pair mile in |
2l2 ., last half in ;02 2.
o. A. Hickol1 and Counselor" Craw-
ford have bought the bay gelding Charles |
Hilton from George ID. Slsson, Grand |
Rapids, Mich Reported price $4,000.
Estella, the dam of Alcantara, Alcyone.
Alline, Almeta, Alicia and Allendorf, died
August 20. She was toaled in 1872, and |
her produce has been valued at 100000.
Hopeful, the veteran trotter, record |
2:l42l, has again changed hands, and will
now be handled by Mr.. William NJ. Detz, |
who so successfully drove him during the
season of 1885.
Ed Corrgans famous jumpers, Tennes-
see, Referee and Wheatley have been
shipped from Saratoga tor Cedarhurst,
and Lucky Baldwin's string were sent
to Sheephead bay.
The 2:1S pa ling race for Hampden park,
Springfield, did not fill and another race
will probably be substituted. The special
event will be Harry Wilkes to harness
against Johnston to wagon.
Hanover who is undoubtedly not only
the greatest three yedrold of this season,
but also one of the greatest race horses
that has ever appeared upon the turf, is a
son of the famous race horse Hindoo.
f. II. Todd, Calais, Me-. recently pur-
| chased at the Fashion farm, the two-year-
old colt Egardo by Rumor, dam Lucia by
Jay Gould second dam Lucy, 2:1S4.
Lucy is still alive, although now over 30
| years old.
The famous bay PAGER Gossip, jr., has
been sold by j. Fritz to H. b. Sire for $4,000.
! Gossip, jr., is now at Albany and is enter
ed for the races at Hartford and Spring
| field. His new owner also owns Harry
! Wilkes and Rosalind and other good
ones
The horses composing the Parkville
! stable will he sold at auction at the track
| Of the Brooklyn Jockey club on the first
| day of the fall meeting. The horses in
clude Letrtia Richfied, King Victor,
! Dir. Smoot, Sarslield, Algiers, Garrison
and Fire Escape.
Mr.. Belmont's colt, Prince Leopold, the
largest thoroughbred in America, that
broke down recently, has been sent to the
nursery. The Prince stood l6 hands when
a two-year-old, and now he is fully H. He
is too bulky for racing. He is by Don
caster, dam Princess.
Lucky B., Lucky" Baldwin's favorte
| horse al in sipnl Friday ut
Sheepshead Bay and died Saturday night
of paralysis of the brain Last year he won
II out of % races in which he entered. The
same season, with 1l9 pounds up, he ran
two miles in 1881 at Saratoga. He has
won $50, 900 during his racing career.
o. LClark of Georgia owns IA months.
old colt, bright bay, sired by McEnany's
Star Ethan, a fine stopper, handsome and
very promising; weight 935 lbs. Ballard
Brothers own a 14-months old colt that
bids fair to take the first honors; bright
bay and without fault; weight 1920 III. ;
sired by Brainerd's Star Ethan Allen.
The great stallion Bayard, which sired
the dam of both Jay-Eye-See and Maud
S, owned by Prof. Armstrong and kept
on the latter's stock farm near Mount
Union, OHIO, recently got into the field of
! a neighbor, who brutally knocked the
ANIMALS eye out with large rock. a
SUIT for damages is contemplated.
Molie Harris, owned by George A Har-
ris of Stowe, fOaled in 1861, had a colt
every year from 1866 to 1883, inclusive, eX-
cept one. Four years ago she mred in
swamp, causing her death, bat her colt
lived. She was a very valuable mare.
She was sired by Hector, he by Hill's
Blackhawk. 1t is SAID that nearly all her
colts sold for round price, one of them
for $500.
Twenty gentlemen at North Troy have
formed the North Troy Driving club and
have leased of Deacon Wheeler, II acres
of land on his farm in the village, for
trotting course for a term of five years,
with the option of purchasing at the eXplr-
alton of the lease. The course will he a
full half mile and perfectly level, and it is
the intention of the club to make 1t as
good as any track in the State.
The trotting stallion Grosyenor, by Adj
illustrator Sylvia, bred in Kentucky in
1873, fell III race at san Jose, Cal, on
Monday week and died. He is a great
loss, combining as he did the blood of
Rysdyk's Hambletonian, Edwin Forrest,
Abdallah, Mambrlno and the original
| Messenger.
At Racine, Wis, Jay Eye-See on Thurs
day trotted one of the fastest miles ever
| made on a half-mile course, the first quar-
| ter in 3G seconds, halt-mie in l:U9@4, three
quarters in LAG and the mile IN 2:l1l4.
| The time is the same as made by Dexter
some years ago and has never been beaten
|
! Rarus made it in 2:l6li.
At the last day of the Mad River Valley
fair at Waitsfleld, Friday, Frank Felts
! Little Ned won the first race. Best time,
2;50. Black Dan won the 4-year-old race,
| Best time, 2:56 He is owned by j. X.
| Lynd of Wililamstown.
The owner of Garnett has bet $1,000 with
New York man that Garnet beats Prince
| Wilkes, 2:2Ol4, in the $4,000 race for
horses IN the 2:20 class at Hartford next
month. Prince Wilkes, it will be remem-
bered, was III the $4,000 race last year,
being then five years old, and surprised
everybody by his speed and gameneSs. He
is 10y Red Wilkes, and Garnet is by Young
JIM son of George Wilkes.
The young trottinE stallion Bitter
Sweet, by Chelton, out of Mona, has re-
markable pedigree in the number of lines
to Woodford Mambrino. Chelton, by
| Princep-, son of Woonford Mambrino, and
Primrose, by AleXander's Abdallah.
Cheltou's dam Englewood, by Belmont,
out Of Wooablne, dam of Woodtord Mann